Precision Pest Control works properties across Tyler, from single family homes off Broadway to the duplexes and apartment complexes that fill up every August and empty out every May near UT Tyler and Tyler Junior College. Move-in season brings its own headaches, since a mattress or a stack of boxes from an old apartment can carry roaches or bed bugs straight into a clean unit. We treat houses, rentals and the properties that turn over year after year.


We spend a lot of time around Tyler's rental turnover, and bed bugs are the pest that rides in hidden inside a mattress seam or a box of textbooks after a student moves out of a duplex near UT Tyler. Rodents follow right behind, working into older housing stock through gaps around plumbing lines. Wasps and bees build under eaves and porch roofs once the weather warms, and mosquitoes settle into anything holding standing water after an East Texas thunderstorm. We also get calls on snakes, raccoons and opossums, especially near the wooded lots and drainage areas that border a lot of Tyler neighborhoods.
Every May and again every August, a big share of the housing near UT Tyler and Tyler Junior College turns over at once. Students move out of one duplex and into another, apartment complexes clean units back to back, and whatever was living in the old place gets a ride to the new one in a box spring or a stack of moving boxes. Bed bugs are built for exactly this kind of travel, since they hide in seams and folds and do not need much to survive the trip. Roaches move the same way, tucked into cardboard that never gets unpacked for weeks. A single infested unit in a shared building can seed three or four more before anyone notices a bite mark or a shed skin.
We treat this differently than a one time call to a single family home. When a property near campus turns over, we inspect the unit that is moving out, not just the one moving in, and we check the units on either side of it, since bed bugs travel through outlets and baseboards in shared walls. Property managers get a written record of what we found and what we treated. We also time follow up visits around the two turnover windows instead of waiting for a call, because a mattress that looked clean in July can still be carrying something by the time August move in starts.


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